update manager

[Leigh Honeywell]

Reboot and try again.  That will make sure you're not accidentally 
running something that creates the apt-get lockfile.  If it doesn't work 
on reboot, manually delete the lock file.

-Leigh

On 11-02-18 10:53 AM, raymond house wrote:
> Hi David, In both cases I had no synaptic package manager running, no
> software center, and I was not running apt-get in a terminal, at least,
> that I know of. thanks for your help.
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Curtis <dave.c.curtis at gmail.com
> <mailto:dave.c.curtis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2/18/11, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:raymondh40 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > Hello everyone, the last 2 update packages I received, I could
>     not download.
>      > I get : failed to lock the package manager. In the details I get
>     : the
>      > package indexes are currently changed by apt-get. ?? I don,t know
>     what this
>      > means.  Thanks
>      >
>
>     It means you have another process running that is accessing the
>     package database, close any running synaptic package manager, software
>     center etc. If it really is apt-get that is running then you might
>     need to wait while a security update completes. Or maybe you were
>     running apt-get in a terminal, perhaps?
>
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